Letter from Henry David Thoreau to Mary H. Brown
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- 1859-05-19
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- abernethycollection; middleburycollege; americana
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- english-handwritten
Thanking her for the mayflowers. Writes briefly on flowers. Mary Brown lived in Brattleboro, Vt.
This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College.
Help us improve our transcriptions! If you see an error, email us at specialcollections@middlebury.edu .
This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College.
Help us improve our transcriptions! If you see an error, email us at specialcollections@middlebury.edu .
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- aberms.thoreauhd.1859.05.19
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- Joseph Watson (ed.)
Todd Sturtevant
Virginia Faust
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Concord May 19th 1859 Miss Mary H. Brown, Excuse me for not acknowledging before the receipt of your beautiful gift of May-flowers. The delay may prove that I did not fear I should forget it, though very busily engaged in surveying. The flowers were somewhat de- tained on the road, but they were not the less fragrant, and were very superior to any that we can show. It chanced that on the very day they arrived, while surveying in the next town, I found more of these flowers than I had ever [page break] seen hereabouts, and I have accordingly named a certain path “May-flower Path” on my plan. But a botanists’ experience is full of coincidences. If you think much about some flower which you never saw, you will be pretty sure to find it some day actually growing near by you. In the long run, we find what we expect. We shall be fortunate then if we expect great things. Please remember me to your Father & Mother Yrs truly Henry D. Thoreau [page break] [envelope addressed] Miss Mary H. Brown _Brattleboro_ Vt
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